喜樂美語
  1. 1v/pleɪ ˈhʊki/翹課／逃學

    口語To stay away from school without asking for permission. Mostly used in American English.

    「play hooky」是美式英文裡的「翹課」，學生明明該去學校卻偷偷跑去別的地方玩。翹課的學生跑去做的不是工作、不是上課，而是「玩」（play），所以用 play 來形容這種行為。英式英文比較常說 bunk off。可以延伸到工作（play hooky from work = 翹班），但仍偏口語。

    示範例句 · Example

    Aisha and Sam played hooky last Friday and went to the beach.

    中文翻譯艾莎和山姆上週五翹課，跑去海邊。

    常見搭配

    • play hooky from school/work

      從學校/工作翹掉

      to skip school or work without permission

      He played hooky from school to go fishing.

    意思相近

    skip schoolbunk offditch classcut class

    意思相反

    attendshow up

From the word’s history

See hooky; built like play truant.

來源見 hooky；說法和 play truant（逃學）是同一種造法。

Wiktionary

同家族的字

played played playing plays

意思相近

skip schoolbunk offditch classcut class

意思相反

attendshow up

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

play hookyverb

  • 1

    To play truant; to avoid (informally: skip) school, work, or other duties (stay away from these without permission nor an excuse); to skive or to bunk off (UK);

    • Plenty of people played hooky from work to go see the movie on opening day.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。